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Stats + Stories: Growing Surveys - Building An Agricultural Census

Linda J. Young is Chief Mathematical Statistician and Director of Research and Development of USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service.

  WYSO is partnering with Stats and Stories, a podcast produced at Miami University.

Linda J. Young is Chief Mathematical Statistician and Director of Research and Development of USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service.  She oversees efforts to continually improve the methodology underpinning the Agency's collection and dissemination of data on every facet of U.S. agriculture. In this Stats + Stories short, Linda J. Young joins John Bailer, chair of the department of statistics at Miami University and Rosemary Pennington, professor in the department of media, journalism and film, to talk about surveys designed to characterize agricultural activity in the US. 

Stats and Stories is a partnership between Miami University's Departments of Statistics and Media, Journalism and Film and the American Statistical Association. You can follow us on Twitter or iTunes. If you'd like to share your thoughts on our program, send your e-mail to statsandstories@miamioh.eduand be sure to listen for future editions of Stats and Stories where we discuss the statistics behind the stories and the stories behind the statistics.